Mitchell Lectures
Mitchell Lectures
Our first Mitchell Lecture took place in 2007 and is now held annually. This prestigious Lecture honours the previous Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, Senator George Mitchell, for his enormous contribution to the University and the wider community.
| Year | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Professor Charles Sawyers | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA. | Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Cancer Drug Resistance |
| 2015 | Professor Lisa Coussens | Oregon Health and Science University | Inflammation and Cancer: Good Cells Behaving Badly |
| 2014 | Professor Sir Mike Stratton | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | The Genomes of Cancer Cells |
| 2012 | Dr Edison Liu | Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine | Systems Genomics in Cancer Medicine |
| 2011 | Dr Joan Brugge | Harvard Medical School, Boston | Modeling Cancer in Three-Dimensional Cultures and Mouse Models |
| 2010 | Professor Frank McCormick | UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Centre | Success and Failure on the RAS Pathway |
| 2009 | Bruce Chabner, M.D. | MGH Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA | From Belfast to Boston: Solving Difficult Problems. A Personal Approach |
| 2008 | Professor Sir Philip Cohen | MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, University of Dundee | The interplay between ubiquitination and phosphorylation in regulating the innate immune system |
| 2007 | Professor Neal Rosen | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New York | Feedback and Redundancy in Oncoprotein activated Signalling Pathways – Biologic and Therapeutic Implications |